Macports support

[iryan2]

Hi, nice project, can't wait to start using it. I have a strong preference for Macports over Homebrew because it works across more than one user. Homebrew is installed on my machine but owned by my work user, so on my personal account, curl -fsSL https://alexpasmantier.github.io/television/install.sh | bash fails with:

🔍 Television Installation Script
================================
[INFO] Detected system: macos (aarch64)
[INFO] Installing Television via Homebrew...
Error: /opt/homebrew is not writable. You should change the
ownership and permissions of /opt/homebrew back to your
user account:

I can make do for now with other methods, part of the motivation of raising this issue is to highlight that the recommended installation script assumes a preference for Homebrew, which, you know, might be fair, but it'd be cool to run sudo port install television. I'm kinda hoping the mention of Macports in the installation script signals someone's waiting for this issue to be raised.

[alexpasmantier]

Thanks for the kind words about the project 😊

After doing a bit of investigation into MacPorts, it seems like packaging for it is done by creating a portfile for your application and submitting a PR to the macports ports tree.

Would you consider doing that and becoming the de-facto maintainer for the Macports package of television for the foreseeable future? I'll gladly review the PR before we post it if you want me to.

This would probably entail:

• drafting a PR with the portfile to the macports-ports repo (there are examples you can draw inspiration from here and in the repo's port submission PRs)
• being the default contact if anything ever goes wrong with the port itself (which rarely happens)

[iryan2]

Thanks for the invitation to contribute. I gave it a shot but wasn't able to verify the Portfile I created actually works.

After following the instructions for setting up Local Portfile Repositories, everything looks good after running portindex (as in I can port search television and get the expected result) but then when I run sudo port install television I get this error:

Error: Failed to open statefile for television: Could not open file: [path to Portfile]

I used Claude Code to create the Portfile so it's probably not the right format or missing some critical part (e.g. I don't see a destroot section 🫣) but the error suggests a permissions issue. I tried to things like chown -R macports:macports ~/ports as suggested in this old article and fiddled with permissions without success.

The next step would be to go to the macports community and ask what I'm doing wrong - maybe it is because the Portfile is invalid. Unfortunately I am unable to justify spending more time on this. I'll install via cargo for now and will revisit this decision if tv becomes part of my workflow.

Also, I don't know the significance of this but there's an existing tv port

[alexpasmantier]

Thanks for trying anyways!

Would you mind sharing the portfile draft you ended up with here so that others may try a shot at picking up where you left off? 😊

If anyone else is willing to try this, please feel free to do so.